Records show the battery’s first ever action outside Fort Scott was to march on a road which would have taken him right past the land they had lived on in Jasper Co. Missouri. He later told his grandson Elton that he fought at Honey Springs (Indian Territory – now Oklahoma) and “Newtonie” which turned out to mean the second battle of Newtonia Missouri and several other “frackuses” He told the US board of pension that he was hurt in the service by a bucking horse at Maysville Arkansas and this affected, he claimed, the rest of his working life.